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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-Steam] Maximium quality audio with perfect loop editing (2013-11-16)
« on: 2022-12-28 01:34:26 »You might be interested to know that a musician has started to "restore" the Final Fantasy 7 OST using the original uncompressed samples that he tracked down over a number of years. He goes by the handle TSSF. He had already made a handful of tracks some years back, but he's starting over from scratch now.
https://twitter.com/tssf/status/1590088718500892674
He made the rounds recently after finishing his Chrono Trigger project, which sounds amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw_4DVI-5Vo
Since some of your work has been lost, perhaps it'd be better to wait until TSSF is done with his project, and you could work off of his files? It would sound way better than the official CD OST released by Square since the tracks on that are still the ones that have been processed and compressed for the game.
Just a thought!
Already been friends with him for a while. It's a hit and miss concept though, as often times the original instruments don't sound quite right compared to the original playback. At least with the OST's it's uncompressed original files before they made their way onto the PS1 discs, and the stereo reverb is amazing. I once sent the musician that did Doom on the PS1 the output files of how it sounds on the PS1, and he was shocked to find out commercial PS1's sounded so awful, and were lacking his original reverb effects as well. Seems dev kits had far superior sound quality and capability over consumer-grade PS1 consoles.
At any rate, eventually I will get this tackled again. At least I don't have to start completely over.